A three-judge federal appeals court panel reportedly seemed skeptical on Monday of the lengths the Trump administration has gone to retain Alina Habba as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey.
According to Politico, the panel from the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia spent more than an hour questioning the process the administration used to install the president’s former personal lawyer as the Garden State’s acting U.S. attorney, even as district judges sought to oust her.
A lower court judge ruled in August that Habba’s appointment is unlawful, and Trump’s administration is appealing that decision.
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